Meet our leadership team

As our Interim CEO, Joe brings a distinguished career marked by exceptional leadership and strategic vision in the technology industry. For nearly two decades, he has successfully guided venture capital and private equity-backed software companies, orchestrating profitable exits to industry giants like IBM, Oracle and Yahoo!. Joe’s expertise lies in igniting growth and fostering innovation across diverse organizations.

Currently, Joe applies this expertise directly to our mission. His extensive experience includes serving as an Operating Partner at Marlin Equity Partners, where he played a key role in taking Bazaarvoice (a global leader in Product Ratings & Reviews) private and significantly growing its revenues from $200M to over $300M during his tenure. Prior to Marlin, Joe led Webtrends and then, as CEO of Coremetrics, he made a notable mark in web analytics, building the company into a leader in cloud-based marketing software and growing revenues over 10x before its acquisition by IBM. Joe earned his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Applied Mechanics from the University of California, San Diego.

Beyond his professional achievements, Joe values his personal life. He’s been a lifelong competitive swimmer and enjoys golfing with his family and friends. Joe lives in Atherton, California in the heart of Silicon Valley with his wife and the youngest of his three daughters. This blend of seasoned leadership, strong academic foundation and personal balance is what drives his approach to our company’s success and commitment to our customers.

As Chief Operating Officer, Colby leads company-wide operations and the execution of strategic initiatives, focusing on transforming the business through agentic AI and AI-accelerated engineering. With more than 20 years of experience building and scaling businesses, he brings a track record of innovation and operational excellence.

At Bazaarvoice, Colby most recently led the social commerce and creator marketing businesses, overseeing the launch of Vibe, an industry-first integrated social content solution, following the acquisition of affable.ai. He also served as the General Manager of Influenster, an online community of shoppers that grew to over 10 million active users globally under his leadership.

Prior to Bazaarvoice, Colby was a Senior Vice President and General Manager at The Walt Disney Company, where he managed streaming and digital P&Ls across several brands, built new e-commerce revenue streams, and helped grow global audiences for Disney’s streaming platforms.
Colby earned his BA in Economics from Stanford University and his MBA from UCLA Anderson.

Gayle is committed to helping us achieve extraordinary business success through our people.

It is often said that a company’s greatest asset is its people. Bazaarvoice couldn’t agree more! Gayle leads Bazaarvoice’s People organization and takes great pride in being responsible for the attraction, development, and retention of our employees. She is passionate about helping employees reach their full potential and creating a company culture where employees are excited to come to Bazaarvoice every day.

At Bazaarvoice, we see our own success through our customers’ outcomes. This is one of our company values. This is also true for the People function, whose customer is our employees. Gayle is dedicated to helping Baazarvoice employees be their best by ensuring the team has the support and development opportunities they need. This includes fostering an inclusive company culture where employees are engaged, challenged, and rewarded. Happy employees make for happy customers, which means we all succeed.

Prior to joining Bazaarvoice, Gayle’s 25 years of experience include working with global technology and medical device companies. Most recently, she was the Chief People Officer at Lifesize, a cloud communications company offering video and contact center. Prior to Lifesize, Gayle was Senior Vice President of HR at Smith & Nephew (formerly ArthroCare Corporation). She also held senior HR leadership roles at Boston Scientific, IBM, Vignette, and Tivoli. Although varied in size, maturity, and culture, Gayle successfully guided these companies through tremendous change while ensuring both employee and customer interests remained front and center.

Gayle earned a Bachelors and Masters in Education from Henderson State University.

As Senior Vice President, Product, Marissa leads Bazaarvoice’s product organization focusing on product management, UX, and product marketing.

With over 15 years in the technology industry, Marissa has a wide range of global experience, pertaining to product management and go-to-market execution. Marissa has been with Bazaarvoice for nine years, during which she has held various roles on the product team. Most recently, she served as the leader for the Consumer Experience and Content Generation portfolios. She led the successful product-integration of Bazaarvoice’s Curalate acquisition, and drove the launch of the company’s visual distribution offering. Previously, she served as the leader over the business’ client tools and platform portfolios, along with product operations.

Prior to Bazaarvoice, Marissa spent almost five years with Microsoft. She served as the product management lead for launching infrastructure-as-a-service on Windows Azure, and helped manage product launches while measuring global success of Microsoft’s web platform. Prior to that, she spent just under two years at Accenture as a consultant for clients in the communications and technology industries.

Marissa earned her undergraduate degree from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, holding a Bachelor of Science with a double major in Business (Accounting) and Journalism (Advertising).

As Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Compliance Officer, Gracie leads the global legal team in managing the company’s legal affairs worldwide. She also manages the company’s global ethics and compliance program. Gracie originally joined Bazaarvoice in 2015 as Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, managing the company’s ethics and compliance program and providing administrative oversight of the internal audit function.

Gracie also had a 13-year tenure at Dell, serving in a variety leadership positions, including SVP of the litigation, employment law, government relations, and ethics and compliance functions. Gracie has also served as a lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Texas where she taught courses on business law, ethics, government relations, corporate compliance, and corporate social responsibility. She started her legal career in private law practice and was a partner in the Austin Office of Hughes & Luce (now K&L Gates) before joining the in-house legal team at Dell. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.